Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-11-19

case torefreSn your mlnu with your evening
meanness. Then lie down and wait for the
coming OF the day, and il will come before
sleep comes, or your sleep will be worried
| quiescence, and IL YOU take the precNution
10 lie fiat on your back frightful nightmare
Why not put bound TO your animosi-
| tyl Why let your foes come into the sanctlties
| Of your dormitoryl Why let those slanderers
who have already torn your reputation TO
pieces or injured your bus inesS, bend over
your midnight pillow and drive from you one
| of the greatest blessings that God can offer
sweet, refreshing, all invigora,ing sleepl
Why not fence out your enemies by tue
golden bars of the sunset, Why not stand
behind tho barricade of evening Cloud and
say to them; "Thus far and no farther "
Many man and many woman Is having
| the health Of body as we'll rs the health OF
soul eaten away by malevolent spirit
have in time Of religious awakening had per-
sons night after night come into the inquiry
room and get no peace OF soul After a
/ while have hlunIly asked her; Ills there
| not some one against whom You have a
| hatred that YOU are not willing to give npp
After little confusion she has slightly
whispered: Eyes" Then said to her; "You
will never find peace with God as long as
I sou retain that virulence."
A boy in Sparta, having stolen a fox, kept
him under his coat, and, though the fox was
| gnawing his vitals, he submitted to II rather
than exposeh's misdeed. Many man with
| a smiling face has under his jacket an ami
/ mostly that is gnlwing away the strength OF
his body and the integrity fhis SOUL Better
get rid of that hidden fox as soon as possible.
lhere are hundreds Of domestic circles where
that which most is needed Is the spirit OF for
giveness. Brothers apart and sisters apart
and parents aud children apart Solomon
SAYS a brother Offended is harder to be won
than strong city. Are there not enough
sacred memories OF your childhood q bring
-, ,c,,attara Tho rsl,hins rs,,ounf how that
| Nebuchadnezzar's son had such spite
| against his father that after hc was
/ deal be had his father burned to
ashes, and then put tho ashes into
! four sacks. and tel them to four eagles
necks which flew away in opposite directions
| Aud there are now domestic antipathies
which seem forever TO have scattered all
parental memories TO the four winds Of
| heaven. How far tho eagles fly with the
sacred ashes, The hCur of shutdown makes to
that family impractical suggestion. Thomas
CARLYLE, in his Biography of Frederick the
Great, says the old king was told by the con.
feSsor he must be at pelce with his enemies IL
he wanted to enter heaven. Then he said to
| his wife, the Queen. "Wnte to your brother
after am dead that forgive him. Roof,
the confeSSor, said; Her saiesiy had better
write him immed ately,N NO. said the
King, latter am de0d; that will bc safer, y
So he let the sun of his earthly existence go
down upon his wrath
! Again: We ought not to allow thesun to set
i before forgiveness takes place, because we
, might not live TO see anoth,rday. And what
| Il we should he ushered into the presence OF
our Maker with grndge upon our souls The
! majority of people depart this life in the
| night. Between II o'clock ?, M and ) O'Clock
a. m. there is something in the atmosphere
which relaxes the grip which the body has on
the soul, and most people enter the next
| world through the shadows OF this world.
| Perhaps Col may have arranged it in
that way SO as to make the con-
trast tse more glorious have seen
sunshiny days in this world that must have
been almost like the radiance of heaven But
as most people leave the earsh between sun
down and sunrise, they gust this world at its
darkest, and heaven, always bright, will be
| the brighter for that contrast. Out OF black
ness into irradiation. Shall we then leap over
the roseate bank Of sunset into the favorite
! hunting ground OF disease and death, carry
ing our animoities with US. Who would
want to confront his God, against whom we
| have all done meaner things than anybody
has ever dono against us, carrying old
grudgesi How can we expect his forgive
ness for the greater when we are
not willing to forgive others the leSSl
Napoleon was encouraged to undertake the
crossing of the Alps because Carlemagne
had previously crossed them. AMI all this
| rugged path of forgiveness bears the bleeding
\ footsteps of him who conquered through
suffering, aud we ought to be willing 10 fol-
low On the night OF our departure from
this life into the next, our one plea viii have
to be for mercy, and it will have 10 be
offered in the presence Of him who has
said: "1f YOU forgive not men their tres
passes neither will your heavenly Father for
give your trespasSeS.H What a sorry plight
il we stand there hating this one, and hating
that one, and wishing this one damage and
some one else calamity, aud we ourselves
| needing fOrgi venesS for ten thousand times ten
thousand obllquitieS OF heart and life. When
I our last hour comes, we want Il TO ind MS all
right. Hardly anything affects me 50 much
in the uneoyering OF ancient 10 nreli rs the
i account of tie soldier who, after the city had
for many centuries been covered with the
ashes and scori@ of NesaviuS, was found
standing in his place on guard, hand on spear
and hemlet on head Others ;lesl at the awful
submergement, but the explorer, LOO years
after, found the body OF that brave fellow In
! right position. And II viii b. a grand thing
II, when our last moment comes, we ara
found in right position toward the world, as
well as in right position toward God, on
guard and uUlfgrishted by the ashes from the
mountain OF death. do not suppose that
am any more Of IA coward than most people,
but declare TO YOU that would not dare 10
| sleep to night il there were any being in all
the earth with whom | would not gladly
shake hands, lest during the night hours,
| my soul dismissed 10 other realms, should,
because of my mlorgiving spirit, be denied
divine forgiveness.
=" But. SAYS some woman, "there Is hor-
rid creature that has SO injured me that rather
than make up with her | would die first
Well, sister, you may take your choice
for one or the other il will be-your com
plete pardon OF her or Gods eternal Danish
| ment Of you. But SAYS some man
"tbat fellow who cheated mo out Of those
goods, or damaged my business credit, OF
started the lie about inc in the newspapers,
or by his pertdy broke up my domes.
tic happiness, forgive him L cannoi--for-
give him l will notn Well, brother, take
your choice. You will never be at peace
with God till you are at peace with man.
Feeling as you now do. you would not get 50
near the harbor Of heaven as to SEQ tho light.
ship. Better leave that man with the God who
said; Vengeance is mine, l will repay. v
You may say; ~ will make him sweat FOR
that yet, will make him sluirin, mean To
pursue him 70 the DEATH but You are dan.
aging yourself moro than YOU damage him
and you are making heaven for your own
soul an impoSsibility. II he win not he
reconciled 10 you, 10 rcconciled 10 him. In
five or six hours il will be shutdown. The
dahlias will soon bloom against the western
sky. Somewhere between this and that take a
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